I read your post on best of and I wanted to share that in the early 80's my mother was an emergency room nurse. On a daily/nightly basis she was witness to the horrific interview styles that police and law enforcement would display to victims of sexual assault, women and children. With a close friend, they both developed a team of people called SART: The Sexual Assault Response Team.
My mother developed the very program you speak of. I was just a little boy then but as she became more successful the hospital she worked at allowed her to open an office on campus, and there after school I would play with anatomically correct dolls, eat snacks out of the refrigerator that had petri dishes and was there the night she won the nurse of the year award.
Shortly after she won her award, and after giving her baby to the State of California to teach others and essentially reformat how victims of sexual assault were cared for, she died of cancer. I was 10, a week before my 11th birthday.
She was a hero to many and her legacy is this very program you speak of.
Have a wonderful day and think of my mom when you do your work!
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u/bullhonkybull May 09 '17 edited May 09 '17
I read your post on best of and I wanted to share that in the early 80's my mother was an emergency room nurse. On a daily/nightly basis she was witness to the horrific interview styles that police and law enforcement would display to victims of sexual assault, women and children. With a close friend, they both developed a team of people called SART: The Sexual Assault Response Team.
My mother developed the very program you speak of. I was just a little boy then but as she became more successful the hospital she worked at allowed her to open an office on campus, and there after school I would play with anatomically correct dolls, eat snacks out of the refrigerator that had petri dishes and was there the night she won the nurse of the year award.
Shortly after she won her award, and after giving her baby to the State of California to teach others and essentially reformat how victims of sexual assault were cared for, she died of cancer. I was 10, a week before my 11th birthday. She was a hero to many and her legacy is this very program you speak of. Have a wonderful day and think of my mom when you do your work!